Guess what?!
We have an official book cover! I’d like give a very special thanks to folks over at Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions! I couldn’t be more thrilled with how everything has progressed.
Head over to the Space Tripping order page to check it out!
https://www.inkshares.com/books/space-tripping
Much Love,
Patrick
Greetings friends... today we have some excellent content for you to slice through while you await the season finale of Game of Thrones.
First up: My final copy edited chapter 1. While the entire book is done, I’m only putting up chapter one for you guys to read. If you want to have some literary fun and compare the old chapter 1 vs the copy and proof edited version I’ve made it easy.
Click HERE for the old one.
Click HERE for the NEW FINAL SUPER AWESOME one.
When you are done, feel free to leave a review. Consider it practice for when I start showing up at your houses begging you to leave other reviews on Amazon or Goodreads in November.
Next: We cleared the milestone mark of 1k! I did an interview with Chris Irvin (Author of Wrestletown) for his blog HERE. Finally, Publishers Weekly has listed The Seventh Age (Gotta scroll down a bit, but I made the list!)
I’m waiting on some final artwork before I begin the raffles, so I’ve decided to leave it open. Anyone who preorders a copy of The Seventh Age before I get my final demon hunter kit ready for raffle and the art needed will be eligible. (Thinking early July).
Dear friends:
Every once in a while, I get an e-mail from Inkshares with the subject line “You’re Selling Books.” Opening those e-mails is like opening a long awaited present. Those e-mails mean that a bookstore has decided to take a chance on my novel, and it will be carrying one or several copies of The Catcher’s Trap.
The first thing I do when I get those e-mails is googling the bookstore, finding out where is located and then sending them a thank you tweet for taking a chance with a new author.
So far six independent bookstores will be carrying my book: A. C. Vroman, in Pasadena, Ca. Common Good Books, in St. Paul MN. Tattered Cover in Denver CO. Prairie Lights Book, in IOWA City IA, Mysterious Galaxy Books, in San Diego CA and Flyleaf Book, in Chapel Hill NC.
There are over sixteen hundred independent bookstores in the U.S. It would be a dream come true if all of them carry my book, but, in the meantime, I’m thankful for those 6.
Hopefully, a bookstore in my home state of Connecticut will take a chance on me.
I also dream about taking a road trip and visiting every single one of the bookstores carrying my book. So far my map looks like this:
My trip would cover 4 thousand miles and it will take 61 hours of driving. If I’m lucky, and readers love my book as much as I do, many other stops will be added. Maybe I’ll have to take a year off to cover them all. An author can dream, right?
Have a wonderful weekend!
